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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the authors
In 2019, the American Library Association added sustainability to its Core Values of Librarianship to foster community awareness and engagement on climate change, resilience, environmental impact, and a sustainable future. The Sustainable Library’s Cookbook collects a series of engaging activities for academic libraries interested in implementing sustainability practices in three different areas:
- Applying Sustainability Thinking and Development. Recipes are focused on applying sustainable thinking processes to library functions and services, including open educational resources, seed libraries, and reusable supplies and resources.
- Teaching, Learning, and Research Services. This section contains lesson plans, learning guides, research activities, and projects that focus on sustainability in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, from STEM data literacy to campus sustainability projects to Indigenous environmental justice.
- Community Engagement, Outreach, and Partnerships. Recipes emphasize how community partnerships and outreach can be effective ways to inform and foster sustainability practices in the library and beyond, including environmental movie nights, bike-lending programs, and ideas for sustainable fashion.
Many of these recipes include learning outcomes and goals from ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, disciplinary focuses, and the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This cookbook provides librarians with a series of best and effective practices, case studies, and approaches to support sustainability efforts in the library and collaboratively across campus.
Introduction
Section 1. Applying Sustainability Thinking and Development
See How Our Garden Grows: Cultivating Community through a Fruit and Veggie Exchange
Kim Kane, Rachel Myers, and Gayatri Singh
It Takes a Village Sustainability Starter
Kim Kane, Rachel Myers, and Gayatri Singh
I Believe You Have My Stapler: How to Encourage Reuse with an Office Supply Rehome Program
Kim Kane, Rachel Myers, and Gayatri Singh
Absolutely Free Market
Kim Kane, Rachel Myers, and Gayatri Singh
Out of the Oven and into the (Reusable) Bag: Sous-Vide Book Delivery
Rebecca Brand, Emily Cornell, Chris Cunningham, Pamela Johnston, and Seti Keshmiripour
Adding More Green for a Healthier Library: Modeling Sustainability Practices
Allison B. Brungard and Jennifer Bartek
The Low Paper Diet: Conveying the Economic and Environmental Benefits of Book Scanning
Danielle Rapue, Kathryn McGuire, and Josh Hughey
You Have the Ingredients! A Canvas for Creating Your Own Green Library Recipe
Eric Tans, Sarah Klimek, Terence O’Neill, and Stephanie Perentesis
Keeping the Lid on Textbook Costs through a Textbooks-on-Reserve Program
Mary Jo Orzech
Rooftop Garden Ratatouille: Developing Plaza/Deck Library Greenspace
Mary Jo Orzech
Menu du Voyageur: Four Courses That Apply Sustainable Thinking to Impact the Health of Our Students and Staff
Stephanie L. Barrett
“Greening” the Library Event and Cleanup
Uta Hussong-Christian
Affordable Food for Thought
Jamillah Scott-Branch and Danielle Colbert-Lewis
Sustainability and Seeds
Kayla Kuni
Section 2. Teaching, Learning, and Research Services
Exploring UN SDG Target Goals through a Research Poster Project
Nardia Cumberbatch
Key Ingredients in Tables and Graphs: Learning How to Read Ecological Data Visualizations
Cathryn F. Miller
Supporting Research for Local Impact: Engineering Students as Sous Chefs
Tiffanie Ford-Baxter and Elizabeth Galoozis
Recipe Boxes and Breakout Rooms
Joyce Tokuda, Maiana Minahal, and Joy Oehlers
Deconstructing the Recipe of a New Sustainable Campus
Amani Magid
Energy Conservation and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Linda Musser
From the Archive to the Digital: Thinking about Sustainability through Murals
Stacy R. Williams and Andrzej Rutkowski
Indigenous Communities, Sustainable Development
Naomi Bishop
Cooking with Authority: Using a Flipped Lesson and Librarian Meeting to Evaluate Authority
Brianna Buljung
Ingredients for FYE Success: Sustainability and Information Literacy
Elena Rodriguez and Burton Callicott
Nonprofit Nutrition: Libraries, Sustainability, and Open Access
Burton Callicott and Elena Rodriguez
Web Archiving as Sustainability: Preserving Information and Building Student Skills through a Collaborative Web Archiving Project
Andrea Schuler
Dividing Sustainability Resources into Manageable Portion Sizes
Heather Snapp, Katie Leone, Elizabeth Weatherford, and Jessica Phillips Marcolini
Teaching Undergraduates How to Critically Evaluate Information Resources and Scholarship Related to Sustainable Agriculture
Lalitha Nataraj
Make a UNESCO and ACRL Learning Goals Sandwich: Connecting Sustainability Education and Information Literacy Instruction to Solve Global Problems
Jessica L. Howard and Maiko Arashiro
Teaching Sustainable Information Literacy in an Academic Inquiry-Based-Learning Course for First-Year Undergraduate Students
Marc Stoeckle and Harrison Campbell
Information Literacy Grid-dle Cakes
Naomi T. L. Toftness
Delectable Discourse Discovery in Environmental Studies
Shannon Kealey
Making an Urban Trifle: The Layering of Urban Sustainability
Hilla Sang and Elizabeth A. Gilblom
Dinner and a Datathon: Eating Pizza and Analyzing Local Environmental Data
Kelly Grossmann and Meryl Brodsky
Section 3. Community Engagement, Outreach, and Partnerships
Fix It: Mending Workshop
Andrea Jakubas
Going beyond Cookie Cutter Outreach: A Climate Change Film Series and Dialogue
Jen Bonnet and Cindy Isenhour
Finding the Frontlines of Environmental Justice in the Library
Susan Brazer and Shane Hall
Local Foods Sustain Your Community
Catherine Wong and Kathryn Geoffrion Scannell
Creating a Sense of Place: Connecting Participants to Local Habitats through Library and Community Partner Collaborations
Christina C. Wray, Sandra Avila, and Megan Haught
DIY Makers’ Day
Kim Kane, Rachel Myers, and Gayatri Singh
Filling the Cabinets with Nutritious Information
Neyda V. Gilman
Library Muesli: A Recipe for Starting a Seed Library
Holly M. Dean
Fast, Fun, Free! Promoting Sustainability and Good Health through a Bike-Lending Program
Lorna E. Rourke and Zack MacDonald
Mixing It Up: Collaborating with Campus Students and Staff to Promote Sustainability via a Large Library Display
Mandi Goodsett
Signature Sustainability Earth Day Dish
Nancy E. Garmer
Garden-Fresh Film Night: A Recipe for Library-Garden Partnerships
Shannon Kealey
Mixing Sustainability and Fashion: A New Taste at Repurposing Clothing through Clothing Swaps and DIY T-Shirt Tote Bags
Sally Romero
The Olive Green Book Drive Savory Salad
Leila June Rod-Welch
Community Day Digitization Program
Sophia Sotilleo